A man who attacked a neighbour he mistook for a burglar, headbutting him and hitting with a mobile phone, has been jailed.

A drunk Harry Jones launched a “sustained attack” on Adam Rogers when he found the victim and a friend outside his room in a shared block of flats on Cunliffe Stree, Wrexham.

Jailing Jones, 36, for nine months, Judge Niclas Parry told Mold Crown Court said: “I do make allowances for the fact that perhaps to a degree it was understandable that you though that they were there for no good reason. “But this was a gross over-reaction because of alcohol.”

Prosecuting barrister Andrew McInnes told the court an official responsible for the property cut a padlock open for them to get in and left them to retrieve belongings from an adjoining room.

Harry Bernard Jones, 36, from Wrexham has been jailed for nine months (Image: North Wales Police)

Jones had been disturbed by the noise of the padlock being smashed open, came out and was immediately aggressive, calling Mr Rogers and his friend “druggies and smack-heads”.